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AI on trial – who is responsible when the algorithms mess up?
What happens when public prosecutors bring charges directly against artificial intelligence itself? A mock trial in Geneva recently found out.
And while this particular mock trial may not have the international resonance of some others, such as Swiss director Milo Rau’s 2017 Congo tribunalExternal link, it does fit into a growing trend of courtroom experiments with AI. Specifically, AI stands accused of two crimes: the “creation and diffusion of fake news” (in particular, the claim that people with red hair are more prone to violent criminality); and “discrimination and incitement to hatred” (in this case, the racial profiling by an automated check-in machine at Geneva airport). For two years now, researchers have been talking with students across Switzerland about how AI can and will impact their lives as citizens of a democracy, says Jérôme Duberry, who led the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)-backed initiative.
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